Youth In Revolt have a new album called Antisocial Disaster coming out on December 25, 2024.
The album focuses on experiences throughout Kenny’s life which can be relatable to many.
Kenny produced the album with help from his fiancée Ayla who engineered the vocals.
Kenny said: “Hello everyone! Thanks so much for having us on here again, we love y’all so much ❤️
So, on Christmas Day we have a brand new album coming out called “Antisocial Disaster”. It’s basically about a bunch of experiences I’ve had throughout the years that I think many can relate to.”
He highlighted how it was a collaborative effort to create the album – over a lengthy time – as although the writing and recording was done quite quickly, the mixing and mastering took the longest.
He added: “It was so much trial and error trying to get this record up to par with everything that was coming out and relevant, and since I wasn’t an amazing mixing and mastering engineer it took forever and pushed me beyond any limit I thought I ever had. In the end I think it came out amazing and with all the extra time I had with it I was able to really make it up to speed with huge budget albums and big time producers. I couldn’t have done it without the rest of the band listening to a million bounces of each song and going through every little detail of every song and telling me what they liked, disliked, etc.
“Big shoutout to my great friend and business partner of my studio, Christjen Madafarri of Bridge Lights who helped me with harmonies, some lyrics, adlybs and melodies when I was absolutely stuck at a brick wall.
“Also huge shoutout to my fiancée Ayla for being my assistant and engineering all of my vocals and giving me her honest feedback on takes and everything without being biased.
“So let’s jump into what the track listing is and what the songs are about!”
1. Give It Up
Give It Up is a callout to my fiancée’s ex, who was her abuser. She’s been through a ton of trauma and pain in her life to begin with and this person set her over the edge.
I saw pictures, screenshots, etc of all past abuse and even when her and I got together this person was still starting shit online and terrorizing her. Things have calmed down for a while now, but I wrote this about a year ago when things were at its peak. I’m sure it will stir the pot again but I don’t really care! I will protect this woman even after I die.
2. Heartbreak & Tragedy
This track was about my rough relationship with my ex fiancée who I was with from when I was 14 to about 25. We were going through a rough time for a while, and these were basically conveying my feelings about it all.
We moved away to AZ and left all of our family and friends for a great job opportunity I had. This created a huge rift between us, and as we spent more time apart we eventually ended things mutually.
Her and I are still best friends to this day and realized we were more of friends in our relationship rather than significant others. Not every breakup has to be ugly, but while it was in the beginning we’ve had the best relationship we’ve ever had just being friends.
3. Antisocial Disaster
The title track to our album, I wrote this about my generation’s present day hookup culture. Seeing what my friends and people in general are doing nowadays is so confusing and misleading.
So I wrote a story about two broken people hooking up and put myself as the main character in it all. It’s a representation of how fucked we all are and how ridiculous it is for us to try and have a relationship. Especially when we haven’t even worked on ourselves or tried to fix our own problems.
The music video we shot for this one comes out on record release day, and it was the first one of three (antisocial, 925 and Onlyfanz) we shot in a 4 day span out in North Carolina with my good friend Garett Barefoot of Blackplate Productions.
4. Onlyfanz
This is a silly, funny, “love song” that I wrote about my fiancée and I.
We both did Onlyfans prior to meeting and decided one day to do it again together. It’s got a lot of me teasing her and how she would talk about me to her friends when we first got together like “how she bagged a dude in some famous band” and then I come in right after saying “we’re literally not even famous”. It also has some of me praising her and gushing about how I wish I met her sooner.
The music video we shot for it was meant to be pure comedy and not taking ourself so seriously and show our personalities. I love to laugh and to make people laugh!
5. Lust
Lust is another one of those story songs where I wrote about things that I’ve seen but on the road this time. It’s about how desperate band guys are to get with women and how much drama unfolds from it.
It’s the embodiment of the cringy cool band dudes on tour who are trying to impress girls and be super cool, but then also become pathetic over a summer long fling.
I put myself as the main character here because it’s funny if you know me and how I’ve never been into hooking up with random women on the road and whatnot. That’s pretty much it, band guy desperation!
6. Weak
The song Weak is personal to my mental health. When I was living in AZ I was suffering from the most anxiety and depression I’ve ever experienced. It’s about all of that but mostly my intrusive thoughts trying to control me. The chorus is a whole scene of what would play in my head while I was driving home everyday.
Basically losing control of myself and just crashing my car into my old house to hurt myself. It’s dark, but it’s reality and I suffer from trauma. My brain wanted me to hurt myself for not being able to be good enough. There’s two little Easter eggs in that song that only anime nerds will hear!
7. Forget You
We actually wrote this song about our longtime and current guitar player Alex when he was involved in a toxic relationship and wasn’t taking the band or the music seriously anymore. He knows this, and we love him to death which is why he’s still here.
We were able to work out our problems and issues to move forward and get things back on track. It took a long time but everything was resolved in the end. Here’s your song, buddy! Love you bro 🤣
8. 925
Your typical “I don’t wanna go to work, I wanna stay home and be lazy and have fun” song. When I moved to AZ I hated working (like we all do) and I just wanted to focus on my music but I needed money in order to support myself, my fiancée at the time, and my animals. So it was just one of those songs about living your life and fuck a 9 to 5 job, haha!
This was actually the first music video and song we dropped from the record to prepare people for our change of sound since we’re not a metalcore band anymore.
9. Addicted
I actually wrote this song back in 2018 or so and I changed some lyrics around to make it about my fiancée Ayla since it was a love song. It’s really just me expressing how much I love her and how we both stress about how our traumas from past relationships and experiences and how we think it gets in the way of things but it never really actually does. I love this woman to death and it’s me pouring my cheesy little heart and soul out for her. I love you, Ayla 💕
10. What If
My good friend Christjen who helps me with a ton of harmonies and some melodies here and there wrote the lyrics with me. We wanted a song about how I felt so left out in high school because I went on tour when I was 17 and before I graduated and missed out on so many things that normal teenagers get to experience.
I missed my friends who basically disowned me because they didn’t like that I was living their dream, I missed out on girls I wanted to be with and relationships I wanted to have, all the parties and events I didn’t get to go to.
But everything happens for a reason, and I got signed and went on tour. So it’s me reminiscing, expressing how I wanted to experience those things and actually having my friends stick by me, but then also realizing it wasn’t meant to be and I wouldn’t have traded tour life for the world.
11. Wake Me Up
The absolute hardest song to listen to on the album. My brother Danny was randomly diagnosed with an extremely rare, and aggressive cancer about 8 months ago. I wrote it when we first got the news and how uncertain everything was, but within a month of finding out his diagnosis – he ended up passing away. So then I reworked it to reflect everything that happened in that month.
I would cook all healthy meals for him and try to spend as much time as I could with him when he wasn’t in the hospital, and one day I had the worst experience of my life. I was home alone and had just sat in there with him for an hour to sit with him and hang while he ate, after him being home for a few days from his first round of chemo.
He told me he was tired and wanted to rest which wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, so I told him I loved him and that I’d see him later. I went into the other room and called my oldest brother Dave, to give him an update on him and within exactly 11 minutes of being on that call, I hear a loud bang and I run into the room to find him unconscious and on the floor not breathing. I called 911 and performed CPR on him until the ambulance arrived and tried to save his life. He had no pulse when they got there and so he was brought to the ER. He winded up coming back and flatlining 3 times or so and finally he had to let go.
He fought with all his strength to beat this cancer but it had already spread all over his body when he first found out about it. He was only 36, and my best friend in the whole world.
This song is about him, that experience, and how it affected me. How I wish it was me and not him, how I wish I could’ve saved him and the pain of losing him. I feel like he had so much more to offer to the world with his talents and the incredibly generous, loving and caring person he was.
I was going through a bunch of videos one day and I found a clip of him and his fiancée and friends at an amusement park and he was calling out to her on one of the rides saying “I love you babe!” and I took that clip and put it at the very end of the song just so his voice would be forever immortalized and never forgotten.
Every time I listen to this song I get so choked up, and when I hear his voice at the end it absolutely kills me and I just break down. It’s my favorite song but it’s such an emotional roller coaster and it tears my heart open every time I hear it. It was almost impossible for me to record it because I was crying the entire time.
I love and miss my brother so much, and wanted to end this record with his voice because he was one of my biggest supporters who always encouraged me and helped me with anything I ever needed. I would’ve never had my first few studios if it wasn’t for him helping me build them with all of his carpentry skills and talents. There’s so many things I can sit here and reminisce about that he’s done for me, but I’d be writing an entire book.
Thank you so much for reading this far and getting to know a bit more about the album, the process and what the songs are about! It was the experience of a lifetime and I’m so glad I finally got to achieve one of my dreams by producing a YIR record. None of this would be possible without the drive and talents of Emilio, Devon and Alex. We truly think we did an amazing job together and it’s the proudest we’ve ever been about our music!